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stay with us. can i help you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on grounipping at fedex office. >>> you are watching "worldwide exchange." no rest for italy. banking stocks lead the ftse mib lower as political uncertainty speaks investors. economic malaise in europe, japan and the u.s. all taking its toll. and obama and boehner meet face-to-face as the clock ticks towards the fiscal cliff. >>> china's growth has recently improved. may well be on track to surpass beijing's 7.5% gdp target for the year. but november's softer than expected trade data highlights the vulnerability to riskes from abroad. joining us more now is eunice eune. how likely is it that we see china hit or surpass these growth targets given the figures showed us? >> well, people are growing concerned abou
stay with us. can i help you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on grounipping at fedex office. >>> you are watching "worldwide exchange." no rest for italy. banking stocks lead the ftse mib lower as political uncertainty speaks investors. economic...
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joining us, managing director. what do you make of inditex. >> i think with the share price performance you've seen for that, up almost 70%, almost nothing would please the market. the results are a league of its own. 7% like -- remember, the business is still majority in spain, italy, portugal, greece, et cetera. over 50% of sales. there 7% like for like. margins rising. it is a special company. >> taking a big -- are they taking a chunk of market share, as well? >> absolutely. i think it goes back to the strengths of its model. i think more than anyone else they listen to the consumer. this is fast fashion taken to the extreme. there's something new in the stores every two weeks. there's a reason to keep going every two weeks. they get feedback from the store managers quickly on what's working, what's not working. go back to the production people, say we need this more, we need less of this. >> the supply chain must be -- where are they making this stuff? how are they able to get it into the store so quick three
joining us, managing director. what do you make of inditex. >> i think with the share price performance you've seen for that, up almost 70%, almost nothing would please the market. the results are a league of its own. 7% like -- remember, the business is still majority in spain, italy, portugal, greece, et cetera. over 50% of sales. there 7% like for like. margins rising. it is a special company. >> taking a big -- are they taking a chunk of market share, as well? >>...
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joining us is diana fowl. diana, thanks for joining us. how big is the gap between what employees are looking for for entry level staff and the skills that the current graduates are offering? >> the gap is tremendous. it's a real tragedy. you mentioned the very high youth unemployment numbers, but 75 million youths today and eight youths, half of youths in the middle east and half of youths in greece and others, that 75 million can be contrasted to the shortage of workers for medium and high skill jobs which we establishment by 2020 could reach 85 million. so we have a paradox of too many jobs, too many vacancies and, therefore, an education and unemployment system that is not working correctly. unfortunately not enough data on this matter is available. so our studies, 100 case studies and surveys 8,000 participants in the system across nine countries tries to provide a fact base. and the news is not wonderful. what we learned is that the icip really operate in the system. they participate in parallel universes, if you look. for example, y
joining us is diana fowl. diana, thanks for joining us. how big is the gap between what employees are looking for for entry level staff and the skills that the current graduates are offering? >> the gap is tremendous. it's a real tragedy. you mentioned the very high youth unemployment numbers, but 75 million youths today and eight youths, half of youths in the middle east and half of youths in greece and others, that 75 million can be contrasted to the shortage of workers for medium and...
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ralph silva staying with us. up next, less than a day to go before the big day, we take a look at what some of the top toys have been this year. >>> good morning. welcome to "worldwide exchange." i'm karen cho. >> good morning, everybody. i'm louisa bojesen. these are your headlines from around the world. >> with just one week to go before the u.s. economy goes over the fiscal cliff, law marriages are pointing fingers and playing the blame game. >> mario monti is saying he's available to lead italy, but only for a party willing to push his economic agenda. >> but he has competition in the form of sylvia berlusconi, italy's former prime minister tells cnbc he feels a responsibility to run. >> translator: i feel the need to return to the political arena to prevent the country from being delivered into the hands of a leftist party. >> and the crowds are out, the stores are ringing up those sales. but u.s. shoppers, they may be running lower on holiday spirit and analysts are saying that they're spending less, as wel
ralph silva staying with us. up next, less than a day to go before the big day, we take a look at what some of the top toys have been this year. >>> good morning. welcome to "worldwide exchange." i'm karen cho. >> good morning, everybody. i'm louisa bojesen. these are your headlines from around the world. >> with just one week to go before the u.s. economy goes over the fiscal cliff, law marriages are pointing fingers and playing the blame game. >> mario...
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still with us, alistair. first of all, it seems like netanyahu has the upper hand in terms of the elections. is there any doubt that he's going to be re-elected? >> there's always a bit of doubt. but he and his part they are, as you put it, the party, the extreme right wing party, they'll probably only get something like 35 seats. and they need 6 is for a majority. so they're still going to have to negotiate with the coalition, probably bring. >> a couple of the orthodox jewish parties. and there's a couple of right centers which together are likely to give them a stable majority. so i think marginal the possibility of netten use hue not being returned to prime minister's office. now, for the last year, i've been saying, including several times on cnbc, that netanyahu would not launch a strike against iran until this election was out of the way. now, i could still be proved wrong, but it's sort of looking like one of my better calls at the moment. and markets seem to have got that message on board. if you thi
still with us, alistair. first of all, it seems like netanyahu has the upper hand in terms of the elections. is there any doubt that he's going to be re-elected? >> there's always a bit of doubt. but he and his part they are, as you put it, the party, the extreme right wing party, they'll probably only get something like 35 seats. and they need 6 is for a majority. so they're still going to have to negotiate with the coalition, probably bring. >> a couple of the orthodox jewish...
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send us your predictions. you can e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com, tweet @cnbcwex, or even get direct to myself, @rosswestgate. and while we wait for the employment report, more thoughts about where european growth is going. drifting away. the bundesbank has warned of a possible recession in germany. central bank cutting its growth forecast for the eurozone's biggest economy and that expects growth to reach just 0.4% in 2013. a big cut from previous forecasts of 1% and 1.6%. there's also no political crisis in italy by the way. support has been withdrawn for the group run by monti. berlusconi hinted he may return to politics after stepping down last year. claudia joins us in milan. a number of reports suggested this may not upset investors too much just because we were going to have elections anyway, it doesn't bring it forward a lot earlier. is that the sense that you're getting? >> yes, it doesn't really change in terms of the timing. it just gives you an idea, though, of where berlusconi stands and what the s
send us your predictions. you can e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com, tweet @cnbcwex, or even get direct to myself, @rosswestgate. and while we wait for the employment report, more thoughts about where european growth is going. drifting away. the bundesbank has warned of a possible recession in germany. central bank cutting its growth forecast for the eurozone's biggest economy and that expects growth to reach just 0.4% in 2013. a big cut from previous forecasts of 1% and 1.6%. there's also no...
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joining us now is david scoutville. david, first of all, how do you know the 1 billionth tourist is out there today and where might he or she arrive? >> it's impossible to tell where that personal is going to arrive. but we've calculated very precisely today is the day that ta 1 billionth tourist is going to cross an international border. as you said in your introduction, there's auto huge increase since travel started. only four years ago, that figure was 445 million. so that figure is growing quickly. >> one of the questions, though, become what are the tourism hot spots? are we seeing a shift to where people are going, how they're traveling? what is the outlook for 2013, in your view? >> 2012 will finish at a growth about 2.12%. as we go into 2013, it will be about the same sort of growth rate. most of the growth is coming in asia. europe is still by far the biggest inbound and outbound market. most of the future growth is coming out of china. it is a market which is exploding. i think in 2010, they had 58 million pe
joining us now is david scoutville. david, first of all, how do you know the 1 billionth tourist is out there today and where might he or she arrive? >> it's impossible to tell where that personal is going to arrive. but we've calculated very precisely today is the day that ta 1 billionth tourist is going to cross an international border. as you said in your introduction, there's auto huge increase since travel started. only four years ago, that figure was 445 million. so that figure is...
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sylvia, are you with us? can you hear us? i think sylvia lost her sound there so we'll come back out to her in just a second. if we can forward on to some of the other news we're getting out of that meeting, mario monti made a surprise appearance that we'll talk about as soon as silvia comes back. in particular, let's shift to asia and head to key elections. think in the most recent manufa worsening, meanwhile, opinion polls have been very consistent about which party is likely to become japan's next ruling party. kaori enjoji has more for this. >> japanese prime minister yoshi hikonoda is trying to keep his party in power just days before the election. it could pave the way for the return of the liberal democratic party of japan. >> japan is going to have another election due next year. and what abbe is perhaps going to do is to use the government machine as much as possible in order for the budget to be increased to sustain some of the public works because there is another critical juncture coming up because the japanese go
sylvia, are you with us? can you hear us? i think sylvia lost her sound there so we'll come back out to her in just a second. if we can forward on to some of the other news we're getting out of that meeting, mario monti made a surprise appearance that we'll talk about as soon as silvia comes back. in particular, let's shift to asia and head to key elections. think in the most recent manufa worsening, meanwhile, opinion polls have been very consistent about which party is likely to become...